Real Estate Practice

From the acquisition and financing of a corporate headquarters to the construction of a publicly funded sporting facility, the lawyers of the Firm’s real estate group have the background and experience to successfully consummate a client’s real estate project.

Privately and publicly held corporations, as well as individual investors around the country, turn to our real estate lawyers for assistance in all aspects of real estate law, whether it’s leasing, acquisitions, shopping center development, tackling difficult environmental issues, private and public financing, property taxation including tax exemptions and abatements, land assemblage and zoning, tax credit syndications, residential and commercial construction, multi-family development, tax-deferred exchanges or any of the multitude of other real estate needs a client may have.

Receiving the highest ranking of any Ohio-based law firm for the past four years on the Midwest Real Estate News list of Top Real Estate Law Firms, Ulmer & Berne boasts a real estate practice consisting of lawyers with a broad scope of talent and expertise.  The Firm’s real estate lawyers are listed in national publications such as Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America, as well as in state and local publications as being among the tops in their profession.

We serve as national leasing counsel to a specialty retailer with approximately 900 stores around the country, and are regularly engaged by the world’s largest restaurant company (with over 33,000 restaurants worldwide) with respect to acquisitions and dispositions of locations around the country.  Our clients also include leading apartment owners and developers, shopping center owners, general contractors, property managers, lenders, investors, municipalities and school districts. These local and national clients reflect the diverse and specialized areas engaged in by our real estate lawyers. 

  • Acquisition & Development
  • Construction
  • Environmental
  • Fair Housing
  • Land Use/Zoning
  • Leasing
  • Property Taxation/Abatements/ Exemptions
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Shopping Centers

 

Attorneys
Thomas L. Anastos
Alexander M. Andrews
Anilkumar R. Avutu
Lewis T. Barr
Kristin W. Boose
B. Scott Boster
Christopher D. Cathey
Inajo Davis Chappell
Tiffany Reece Clark
Jason P. Conte
Paul J. (P.J.) Cosgrove
Dacia Crum
Timothy J. Downing
Isaac J. Eddington
William D. Edwards
David L. Eidelberg
Brian P. Farnan
E. Beth Farrell
Robert A. Fein
Christopher P. Fisher
Harold E. Friedman
Bill J. Gagliano
Jeffrey G. Geoppinger
Pamela K. Ginsburg
Bari E. Goggins
John C. Goheen
Neil W. Gurney
John M. Hands
Jennifer Snyder Heis
Sherry L. Hesselbein
Ronald H. Isroff
Rebecca B. Jacobs
Karen E. Jones
Scott P. Kadish
Bradley D. Kaplan
Robert J. Karl
C. Reynolds Keller
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Stuart A. Laven
David J. Lindner
Rex A. Littrell
Mary Forbes Lovett
Bruce P. Mandel
Christopher C. McCracken
Craig S. Miller
Brian M. O'Neill
Jeffrey F. Peck
Gregory J. Phillips
Lori A. Pittman
Stanley D. Prybe
Jodi B. Rich
Megan K. Roberts
Lynnette L. Rodgers
Richik Sarkar
Alan W. Scheufler
Stuart A. Schloss, Jr.
Michael C. Schmidt
Frederic X. (Fritz) Shadley
J. Gregory Smith
William K. Smith
Andrea Stone
Stephanie E. Trudeau
F. Thomas Vickers
David D. Yeagley
Robert E. Zulandt III

 

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Related Practice Areas
Acquisition & Development
Construction
Environmental
Fair Housing
Land Use & Zoning
Leasing
Property Taxation, Abatements & Exemptions
Real Estate Finance
Shopping Centers

 

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